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Alcazar—*‘Oh Susannah.” Grand Opera-house- Columbia—*"More Than Queen."” Tivoli— The Idol's Eve.” Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterpoon and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville. Tanforan Park—Races. AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen—Thursday, April 18, at 12 o'clock, Busi- ness Property, at 14 Montgomery street. T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVIG TOWN FOR THE SUMHER. Camll subseribers contemplating a change of residesce during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new eddresres by motifying The Call Business Ofiice. This puper will also be on sale at all rummer resorts and is represemted by a local agent in all towss on the coast. D DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. URING the past winter there appeared in sev- tes a tendency toward legislation un- to the continued existence of small The origin of the mov not traced to the direct rge imsiitutions. The institutioas ge private endowment seemed as harge of promoting it as did the great Yet the movement was apparent ome formidable. eral St favorable of the ¢ first glance it is somewhat difficult to see at »int legislation could unfavorably affect the olleges. Still, ¢ The valuz of the degrees they confer may depend upon t tere are many way: corporate existence, 2ad the law can take the lLife of a corporation or :o enfeeble it as to destroy the force upon which its irfluence depends. The us: h has proved a potent weapon. e power of ta We have seen it usc 1 by the Federal Government to destroy State banks of issue, and, lifted out of its primitive purpose I was the raising of revenue, it the manuiacture of certain articies which compete with products already estab- lished. s the ol2omargarine legislation is an ia- stance. st of tlic small colleges are supportel by private « many of them depending upon religious de ms, it is shrewdly suspected that this novel mo origin#ted with the people and the der ch bear the burden of their i endowment 2 It is by no means an ualikely supposition. But, whatever its origin, the proposition did not find favor with the thinkers and educators of the country. The small colleges have a record that cannot be impeached and by their work have proved their right to exist. In the discussion of the proposition mo small col- lege was more frequently quoted as an example than Dartmouth. The presence of Dartmouth’s president in California suggests that such institutions may se2 their future welfare in such visits as Dr. Tucker making. He will find here no vririendly atmosphere. When agonism between thic small and large colleges anda unauversities was suggested not long ago President Jjordan nobly dicated the smali institutions and de- clared that mere size was no guarantee of usefulness excellence. President Wheeler was equally ‘m- tic in demonstratinz that the heads of our great utions feel mo jealousy of the small ones. ar ‘he sons of Dartmouth are widely scattered over d the world, and everywhere bear tes- timony to the soundn=ss of their mother college. Dartmouth is identified with one of the greatest professional triumphs i Daniel Webster. In that case he established a precedent in favor of vested rights which long stood undisturbed. It is worthy of note that, incident to that celebrated case, was the - thie i 2 small col cherge 1 oppos This f rnished Webster the oppor- tunity to make one of the few displays of sentiment known in the presentation of cases before the Supreme Court of the United 3:ates. In his oral argument tc aid: “It is true that Dare- mouth is a small colleg=, but there are those who love it.” o phrase could b2 more simple, but uttered by Webster, in 2 ce that perceptibly broke, it brought d’s eye ¢l the grave Judges and of in the distinguished court all the plex; that dignified bench bctore the ¢ n re and the pathos of early m-mories and the debt due for sound training in som= small college or humble school and the beginning ticrein of honorable eers. secmed to pass through the audience and the robed court, and every man w: more, with ambition swelling his heart and the iu- ture rising before him like a land of enchantment. It is probable that whenever the small college is assziled that sentence of Webster's will rise in its de- fense. e The Czar of Russia, «s an evidence of good faith, right at least permit the students to appeal to the Peace Congress and give it some work to do. in order terest that Dartmouth was | company within the bar of | It is said that a thrill | s for an instant a youth once | KENTUCKY AND NORTH CAROLINA, | P | i Southern States, and the check must somewhat re- pair the self-respect of the people of that section. The Kentucky Supreme Court has granted new tiials to the two men convicted of the murder of Goebel. The crime itself was an appalling assault | upon civilization. The cffenses of Goebel against the suffrage were corrigible by legal methods and by or- derly processes. They were scarlet sins against the genius of free government. But free government is 12 worthless fiction unless it carry within itself the ARTISAN rancor, worked out tfirough the courts of law, or directed to the destruction of be committed against 1t. If assassination is the only resource in such a case the government is worthiess; it has no seli-healing power and only cumbers the ezrth with something nct useful to mankind. i The assassination of Goebel was a confession that failure and a fraud, and that the-only basis of social order is force, not publicly but privately and crimi- nally administered. But Judge Cantrill's court accepted just that view of government, only amending it so as to make a court of law the instrumenc of the law- leas use of power. His rulings and his partisanship in the trial of these men were the most farcical travesty oi justice. The offer of a reward of $100,000 for thz conviction of somebody for Goebel's murder set the perjury machine in motion, and in the trial every ruie of evidence, by law and procedure established for the security of rights, was shamelessly violated. Quaking wretches, whose perjury had been suborned, confessed their offense, but their sacramental lies had weighed with the jury and counted in its verdict. The Supreme Court has vindicated justice’ and has single rule of law or requirement of justice. The wretched victims of the misuse of judicial power may be guilty, but their conviction by irregu- lar and outragous judicial vengeance established a precedent that might cost many an innocent man his liie had it been allowed to stand unchallenged by su- perior judicial authority. Let them be tried again by processes purged of their partisan poison, and if fair}, cenvicted let them suffer the penalty. % In North Carolina partisanship attempted the im- peachment of Republican Justices of the Supreme Court upon the pretense that they had usurped the functions of the Legislature. The usurpation con- sisted in passing upon the constitutionality of the acts of that body. But w! are constitutions and courts for? If a man find his enjoyment of rights, guaran- weed to him by the constitution, taken away by the Legislature, where shall he go, under our system of government, to seek recovery of what he has lost? The courts are constituted for that very purpose. To hem alone' can the divested citizen go for reinvest- ment with that which the constitution gives and the Legislature tries to take away. The effrontery of the attempt to impeach the Judges was exhibited when it was shown that the Democratic Justice of the court had done exactiy what the Republican Justices were impeached- for loing, “but he was leit cut of the proceedings, and with the foul spirit of a harpy aided all he dared in the attempt to convict his colleagues! The leader in the Legislature for impeachment is an aspirant for the to make himself solid with the party. But, as in the Kentucky case, free government was vindicated and the Judges were acquitted. John Marshall settled it for all time that American courts are the custodians of the constitutional rights | of the people. The legiclative branch of the Govern- ment may err, ignorantly or with design. It may contravene the constitution and exceed its powers. Ii ra onaiizing processes of the courts the constitution becomes waste paper, as void of saving virtue as the wrapper of a pound of tea. These two incidents mark the turn in the tide of public opinion. Ever since Mr. Bryan adopted the Chicago platform there has been a growing disposi- tion to either dislodge judicial authority altogether or to use it for partisan ends. The culmination of this tendency was reached in the Kentucky trials and the North Carolina impeachment. The reversal in one case and failure in the other mark the death of Bryanism. The two decisions are its epitaph. It is buried like a dead swashbuckler, and no mourners go about the streets. Spring has opened up in the East this year with more than its usual sevcrity; where there have not been wind storms there have been floods; and the Pacific Coast appears to be the only part of the Union where one can sing without swearing the good old reirain: ‘“Hail, gentle spring.” N TOM L. JOHNSON HAS A BOOM. EMOCRACY being in need of a new leader D and not perceiving any sign of one in the do- main of national politics is now engaged in looking for the object of desire among politicians of local repute. In the search attention has been natu- rally given to the threec Democrats who were suc- cessful in the muni elections in Chicago, St. Leuis and Cleveland. kave been thought-of in times past as a Presidential probability, but times Lave changed, and now each of them has a circle of admiring friends who suggest that he would make an exccilent substitute for Bryan on the next national Democratic ticket. All suggestions of thar kind in regard to Harrison | of Chicago have met with rebuff the moment thcy ! were heard of outside tie city. Mr. Harrison is too well known. The supporters of Wells of St. Louis have also had to face a cold reception. Mr. Wells-is not sufficiently known. Thus the third man, the noted Tom L. Johuson of Cleveland, has some- | thing that looks at this stage of the game like a waik- | over. At least he is so far ahead of his rival municipal ‘; magnates that unless some man of national repute de- velop ap unexpected stiength, or some dark horse as yet unheard of be brought out, it is probable that for a little while at least Tom Johnson will have the big- gest Presidential boom ir the Democratic camp. The friends of Johnson assert that he possesses ex- actly the faculties that are needed in a leader and a statesman. He is a successful man of business, an ardent politician, a consistent Democrat to the extent at least that although opposed to free silver he sup- | ported Bryan, and, finally, is said to have the vim, { gor and energy that are required for stccess. He is | better and more widely known than Wells of St. Louis | and not se thoroughly known as Carter Harrison. i People have heard of bim outside of his own city and ! is own State. and have not heard anything worse } about him than that he is a Bryanite. Finafly, as his { friends never fail to add, he is an Ohio man. By way of disclosing to the people at large the quality of their candidate the friends of Johnson are circulating the story of how he defeated a scheme their independence, has been checked in two means for pea-cfully righting every wrong that may ! recorded the certificate of its belief that free govern- | ment can correct all disorders without violating a | Urited States Senate, and took such desperate means | acts are not subject to judicial review by the | cither of the three would ever | o to transfer a part of th= lauke front at Cleveland to the Pernsylvania Railroad. It appears that the City Ceuncil had passed an crdinance making the transfer and it was known that the Mayor would sign it. The rest of the story is thus told by the Springficld Re- publican:. “Johnson went into court and secured an order restraining the Mayor, for a stated period, from | Thursday morning. At 23 minutes after 10 o’clor | Jelinson went before the City Cle-k and asked for the certificate of his .election, which had just been pre- pared. He then presented his official bond duly made out. took the oath of office before a notary and had public record made of the exact hour of the day— ing in mind possible legal proceedings from the rzilroad company. He then hastened to the Mayor's office and took possession—the retiring Mayor being | unceremoniously requested to move out. Thus John- son came into possession of the office a few minutes before the court’s order expired, and the ordinance in | question will not be signed.” It must not be supposed that Johnson’s boom meets none but favorable responses. The Johnstown (Penn.) | Democrat, for example, says: “There is a disposition | in some quarters to make three-cent fares for Johns- | town a test of Tom L. Johnson’s sincerity. Mr. John- so1 is the president of the Johnstown Passenger Rail- way Company, and it is said that he is in absolute control of the property as the owner of a majority of | the stock. If that be the case those who are already } figuring on having to beat him for President in 1904 are prepared to bring forward a failure on his part to reduce fares in this city as proof that he has been talking in Columbus and Cleveland for effect. And of course he and his friends would find such a situation rather an awkward one to deal with when it came 1o an explanation. It would be difficult to make it ap- pear that three-cent farzs were all right in Cleveland | and not all right here. It would be equally difficult to show why he favored three-cent fares for street car | lines controlled by Mark Hanna and opposed three- | cent fares on a road controlled by himself. A small matter like this might ciscredit his whole claim upon the public confidence. It might make his nomination impossible; or, if that were gained, it might defeat him at the polls.” The soundness of such statements is unquestion- able. Mr. Johnson must give three-cent fares to the people of Johnstown or else Democracy will have to start once more on “er forlorn search for a Bryan- beater. In questioning recruiis for the German army re- cently the military authoiities of the Fatherland made | the startling discovery that one out of every three ap- i;-!icants believed that the German Emperor is every- | thing which he is not. The most casual observer is qualified to. predict the character of the first lesson which these recruits will be taught. COMPULSORY VOTING LAWS. COMPARATIVE study of the votes cast at f\ the recent municipal elections in St. Louis and Chicago shows t the Democratic successes were due solely to the fact that Republican voters 1¢- mzined away from the polls in greater numbers than Democrats. Thus in St. Louis the Republican vote | in the Presidential election was 60,608, and the Demo- | cratic vote 50,041. In the recent election the Repub- ican vote fell to 34,810, while the Democratic vote | was 43,012, It will be seen that upward of 17,000 Democrats stayed at home on the day of the muni- cipal election, or voted for the “Municipal. Owner- ship” candidates, whilc about 26,000 Republicans | showed the same indifference to the contest. A similar condition of affairs prevailed in Chicago In the strong Republican wards of that city the Republican vote fell off 37 per cent from the vote of lzst fall, and throughout all the wards there was an aimost equal decline in the voting strength of the | party. In that city, then, as well as in St. Louis, Democratic victory imolies no increase of Democratic strength, but only a spirit of political apathy on the part of thousands of citizens who usually vote the Re- publican ticket. Upon that showing there has arisen 'in the East a discussion of the advisability of enacting a compulsory | voting law, imposing renalties upon the citizen who willfully neglects that important duty. A bill of the kind is now before the Pennsylvania Legislature and appears to have a fair chance of passage. Ii will be conceded that absenteeism from the polls is a grave evil, for strangely enough the absentees zre generally of the better class of citizens, the men upon whom a community depends for the election of capable and honest officials. Anything which can induce the attendance of such men to their political duties is beneficial, but it is doubtful whether a com- pulsory voting law would have that effect. It not in- frequently happens that the good citizen remains away from the polls’ not because he is indifferent, but be- cause he has sound reasons for objecting to the can- didates of his party. He remains away as a rebuke to the bosses, as a means of proving to them that they cannot count on the vote of good citizens when weak men or “ring” men are nominated. The surest and safest way of getting good citizens to the polls is to nominate men in whom such citizens have confidence, and for whose election they are will- ing to work and to vote. A compulsory law might force such men to go tc the polls, but if they liked | the candidate of neither party they would scatter their votés and no particular berefit would result from it. The advisability of compulsory voting has, however, been so long discussed that it would be well to have | a commonwealth of the first rank make an experiment with it, and if Pennsylvania enact such a law the rest of the country will watch the result with keen interest. The Emperor of Austria has conceived, it is said, "a very deep affection for the Crown Prince of Ger- mzny. This may account for the interesting fact that ia reciprocation the Emperor of Germany has a very deep desire to possess some of the lands of the Em- peror of Austria. The local Civil Service Commissicn appears not to understand just what rights have been leit to it by the Supreme Court. This condition of affairs should centinue, as indecision will at least keep the commis- sion: out of serious mischief. . German officials are'denying that their Government is making an exorbitant demand for indemnity from China. They probably think that any claim less than for the earth would be reasonable under the circum- stances. The local yellow sheet appears ‘to be daily more completely than ever the victim of freaks and fakes. | The Pullman car nightmare and the bogus Clark en- :g:gemmt are models cf yellow journalistic unreli- | ebility. It is a long time vet before the next Presid"ential election, but already some effervescent patriots in the country are nominating Funston and Roosevelt as a strenuous ticket. = AN YDANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1901. IPAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. | PERSONAL MENTION. M. Biggs Jr. of Oroville is at the Lick. Ry V. Day of Duluth is at the California. Dr. A. L. Tibbetts of Petaluma is at the signing the bill. That period expired at 11 o’clock last | Nations of The German colonies and protectorates are “spheres of influence” rather than colonies in the usually accepted sense of that term; and they lie in Africa, the Pa- cific Ocean and China. The aggressive movement for territorial extension began during the Chancellorship of Prince Bis- marck, with the rise of the German navy and the organization of a large number of societies, whose chief object was the extension of German commerce. The first of these socleties was organized as early as 1843, in Dusseidorf, for the promotion of emigration to Brazil. Other similar so- cieties were soon established, some di- recting their attention to Texas, some to the Mosquito coast and still others to Nicaragua and to Chile. In 1889 a society was founded at Berlin for the purpose of directing colonization toward Southern PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR -‘THE SAN FraNcisco CALL. How Germany in Her Colonies Extends Her Sphere of Influence Among the By Dr. John E George, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY. (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) o IX.—GERMANY’S COLONIAL POLICY. | ! the Earth. along Kiaochau Bay, which is the most recent acquisition of importance, was brought about by the murder of two German missionaries, who had lived for some time in an inland village, where, their presence had becgme obnoxious to the natives. They were pre- paring to celebrate a church festival in a manner which offended the natives. result was an uprising, in which the m sionaries were murdered. Time was not allowed the Chinese in which to make an investigation. Within two weeks a Ger. man squadron appeared in the bay. Ad miral Diedrichs, who was In charge of | the squadron, was greeted with courtesy | by the Chinese officials, who looked upon his visit as one of ceremony—and so l!" wzs. An indemmity for the murders, con- trol over 2740 square miles was obtained, with mining and rallway concessions in | the province of Shantung. and a German protectorate was established. The prov- ince has a population of 84,014 Chinese and e — Black Troops Welcoming Governor Kohler, Lome, Togoland. Shisliarel Brazil. A considefable share of emigra- tion was turned to that region, where to the present day there are numerous flour- ishing German_colonies, or, as they would better be called, settlements, for the terri- tory which they occupy belongs to the Brazilian Government. Another Important Society. In 1868 another most important soclety was organized, whose objects were ‘‘the study of those lands in which organized German_settlements already exist; the study of the social and commercial condi- tions and the spread of information there- on; the promotionof emigration to reglons where settlers of German ori?hr are al- ready established under conditions favor- able to the genius of the German people: the promotion of intellectual and material intercourse between colonial settlements }and the German fatherland, and, lastly, furthering the establishment of trade and navigation and the acquisition of colo- nies.”” This society, which was called the “‘Central Society for Commercial Geogra- phy and the Promotion of .German Inter- ests Abroad,” had its headquarters in Ber- lin, ‘with branch establishments in the leading cities of the empire, and even in Prazil, the Argentine republic and New South Wales. In the decade following a | number of other societies were organized, with branches wherever German commer- cia] interests could be promoted. These so- cleties, however, while directing their ef- | forts toward countries where large pum- | bers of German rettlers were to be found, were directing them toward countries where political control was out of the question, as the territory was already un- der the jurisdiction of other nations. Turning Attention to Africa. It was reserved for the German Colonial Society, founded at Frankfort, December 6, 1882, to turn attention to a country where the political control of territory might be obtained—Africa. By the follow- !ing year this society had a membership of | over 3000, which since then has increased to considerably over 20,000. The year fol- lowing its organization it gave the colo- nial movement a great impulse by issuing a manifesto in which it stated that the activity of the society would be directed toward certain districts, especially the basins of the Niger and the Congo, where, it was urged, the German Government should take steps to prevent other Euro- pean nations from getting a_foothold. Even as early as 1881-2 Prince Bismarck, urged by these different societies, had en- tertained serious plans for acquiring a hold in the Congo basin. A year or two later, after asking the Chambers of Com- merce of Hamburg, Bremen and Lubeck to express their views as to what would be the most effective means of protecting and encouraging German trade in Africa, | Bismarck received replies pointing to an- nexation. The Hamburg Chamber of Com- merce especially urged the annexation of independent coast regions. General inter- est in the movement was fostered by the publication of mmany books on the subject, as well as periodicals, of which Export and Deutsche Kolonlal Zeitung are repre- sentative. Hand in hand with the aroused interest at_home, another factor looking to the holding of colonies was the growth of | the German navy, which not only took large numbers of German sailors and ex- plorers over the seas and acquainted them with new countries but was absolutel: necessary before territory could be hel in distant lands. Charters for Colonizing Gnfi:paniel. Such was the condition of things when Germany entered Africa, where most of her colonies are, and precipitated the par- tition of that continent in 188. Up to that ‘time the colonization movement from the political point of view had not found much favor in the eves of German offi- cials. Even as late as 1884 Prince Bis- marck asserted that it was not the in- | tention of Germany to found provinces, but rather to promote trade enterprises (kaufmannische unternehmungen). He had in mind giving charters to trading companies, as England had done earlier, and such charters, guaranteeing protec- tion, were issuved in 1885 by the Emperor to two companies, the “Society for man Colonization” and the *“New Guine: Company.”" 2 © Yet in spite of the want of initiative on the part of the . Government, there grew up on its part, after the founding of the empire, the practice of settling cer- tain difficulties which arose in the colo- nies; this in turn led to Germany's assum- ing control over those colonies whose ter- ritory was not under the immediate con- trol of other nations. Thus, in southwest Africa, where British protection had dwin- dled to almost nothing, Germany ste | in and established between 1884 and a protectorate over conslderable territo: just northwest of Cape Coloni'. In muc the same way, and by making treaties with the native chiefs, protectorates were ecstablished even earlier over Togoland and the Cameroons, along the Gold coast. After the protectorate on the west coast, such protectorates became a positive pol- jcy on the part of the Govern- ment. In the scramble for territory which followed between Germany and the other nations, Germany secured between 1885 and 1830 the territory in East Africa, ‘which is her largest colony. German Authority in China. The influence of Germany in the Pacific has been m‘ouikt about chiefly throuy, the work of cl les. ler Dprotectorate in over the territory | and late, ai e is controiled by an imperial governor and a garrison of 1500 officers and men. Germany in the Colonies Togoland, on the Gold Coast, has an area of 23,000 square miles and an estimat- ed population of 2,500,000, of whom only 107 are Germans. An imperial governor rep- resents the empire there. The Cameroons, situated farther down the coast, have an area of over 191,000 square miles and a | population of over 3,500,000. Of this num- ber only 425 are Europeans, and of these only 34§ are Germans. adnunistered | by an_imperial governor, German Southwest Africa has an area of 222,450 square miles and a poulation of about 200,000. There are 2872 Europeans, of whom only 1357 are Germans. An im- | perial commissioner administers the gov- ernment. German East Africa has an area of 3%4,18) square miles and a population of over 4,000,000. Of these 1090 are Europeans, #81 being Germans. In Togoland and the Camercons the chief products are palm | ofl, palm kernels, caoutchouc, ivory, bark, cacao and coffee. Southwest Africa ex- ports hides, horns, ostrich feathers, tan- ning materials, guano and raw hides. | ingide of The government is | borax and two Lick. Dr, W. N. Sherman of Fresno is at the Lick. D. W. Kirkland of Los Angeles is at the Qeccidental. R. V. Ellis, an oft man of Hanford, is at the Palace. R. M. Shackleford of Paso Robles is at the Occidental. John Rosene and J. B. McDougal, ship- ping men of Seattle, are at the Palace. State Serator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Benito is at the Palace. He ‘wiil bein the city the remainder of the week. ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOEK. NEW YORK.i,\)‘rII 15.—The following | Californians are in Ne& York: From San Francisco—J. Bellenger. at the New York: A. W. Brown, at the Gerard: P. Bush, at the Herald Sauare: Dr. J. Q. Dixon, at the Grand: Mrs. Dare, at the Park Avi nue; A. L. Hempon, at the Herald Square: Miss Hoffaker and J. Hoffaker. at the | Park Avenue; R. Knight and wife, at the Morton; Mrs, L. McCreery, at the Hol- land; J. S. Maguire, at the Marlboroug .. A. Maison, at the Imperfal; Miss M Gee, at the St. Denis; J. Mendelson, at the Herald Square; J. W. Nelson, at the Imperial; C. P. Scott, at the Holland: Mr: E. Utley, at the Grand Union; Mrs. C. W. Wheeler, at the Holland; C. P. Downing, at the Amsterdam: R. L. Irving, at the Marlborough; W. Jackman, at the Herald Square; A. Stettiner, at the Imperial. From Los Angeles—R. H. Brown, at the Imperial; C. V. Roy and wife, at the Cos- mopolitan; J. W. Thayer, at the Cadillac. From Pasadena, Mrs. Swan, at the Grand Union. SIS O CALIFORNTANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 15.—The following Californians have arrived: Shoreham—H. T. Scott; L. T. Seott, San Francisco; L. §. Waterman, Santa Barbara. St. James —Mr. and Mrs. R. 3. Tousley, California. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. LOS ANGELES-F. A. W, City. Los Angeles is the county seat of Los Angeles County. JARRETT AND PALMER-H. L. D, City. The Jarrett and Palmer troupe that came across the continent on the light- ning train in June, 1576, gave its first per- formance on the night of the $th of June, the play belnf “Henry V,” with Lawrence Darrett as King Henry. FRUIT IN IOWA—A. O. S., Newecastle, Cal. Fruit grows in all parts of the State of Iowa. Among the native fruits are the plum, crab apple and cherry; the nuts in- clude hickory, hazel, pecan, black wal- nuts and butternuts. Grapes, apples and pears are abundant and the usual variety of small fruits and garden vegetables thrive well. TANNING SKINS—C. W. O, Hilton, Cal. The following is given as the method for tanning any kind of skin with the fur on: “Cut off the useless parts and soften the skin by soaking. Re- move the fatty matter from the inside and soak in warm water for an hour. Next mix equal parts of borax, saltpeter and glauber salts in the proportion of about half an ounce of each for each skin, with sufficient water to make a thin paste; spread this with a brush over the | ?the skin, applying more on the thicker parts than on the thinner. Double the skin together, flesh side inward and ut in a ccol place. After twentysfour | Bours wash the skin clean and apply in | the same manner as before a mixture of | one ounce of salsoda, half an ounce of ounces of hlafi‘ wh‘ge lted slowly together without be- fr‘;:pafi‘:wee& to boll; fold together again and put in a warm place for twenty-four hours. After this dissolve four ounces of | alum, eight ounces of salt and t unces St maieratha in suficient hot raldwhter to saturate the skin; when cool enough not to scald the hands soak the skin in it for twelve hours, then hang it up to dry. Repeat soaking and drying two or three times until the skin is sufficiently soft. Lastly smooth the inside with fine sand- paper and pumice stone.” From East Africa the chief exports are ivery, gum, cocoanuts and hippopotamus | tusks. The islands of the Pacific under | German influence have an area of nearly | 100,000 square miles and a population of | 400,000, and are all under the direct coatrol | of 'the New Guinea company, excepting | the Marshall Islands, which are con- | trolled by an lm?er(al commissioner. The | products are, of course, tropical. Since | 1594 the control of all the colonies has been in the hands of the imperial chancellor. A glance at the map will show that | nearly all the German colonial territory is in the tropical or subtropical regions, and | is, therefore, not well suited to German emigrants, and but few have gone there, as the above figures show. The larger por- | tion of these emigrants still go to more congenial regions in the temperate zones. 8o far, therefore, as colonizing her own emigrants goes, the German movement has not been a success. Nor has it been a success as yet from the financial point of view. Cost of German Colonies. The total cost of administering the col- | onies in 1898-9 was nearly $5,000,000, while the revenue was considerably less than $1,000,000, the deficit of about $4,000,000 be- ing met by imperial grants. Togoland alone is self-supporting, having a reve- nue and expenditure of about $100,000. | Many of the imperial grants are made for | the purpose of building railroads and bridges, improving harbors, etc., and as | yet it is too soon to look for returns. It | is an investment with the hope of returns at a later day. Nor has trade with her cclonies increased Germany's commerce to | any considerable extent. 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